Start Up Right 3: Your Skillset?
I’m talking about starting up your self employment/business in the right manner and a key aspect of this is knowing what to expect. Here I want to talk about your own skills coming into it. Skills That Pay Bills Normally, and especially on the freelance side people have the distinct impression that being successful is […]
Good Client Relations 16: Smaller Clients
Coming to the end of our topic about good client relations I wanted to do a quick summary of some of the positive and negative attributes of both bigger and smaller clients. Bigger Impact One of the main positives about working with those smaller clients and my personal favourite thing, is that you can have […]
Good Client Relations 9: Committees
We are currently covering how to have good relationships with those clients with bad habits. Today I want to talk about groups. We all know that old phrase about how a camel is a horse designed by committee. Too Many Cooks One of the most common problems with working with any large organization is that […]
Good Client Relations 6: Perfect Client
When talking about client relations, you can’t really avoid talking about different kinds of client. To start off with I wanted to talk about that perfect client. Great Expectations When you think about your perfect client , you probably imagine a scenario where a client finds you, pays you a great wage, lets you get […]
Good Client Relations 4: Communication
I’ve talked a lot about the importance communication so far, but let’s delve into some of the specifics. Be Dumbo Any salesperson worth their salt will tell you that the key to success is to listen more than you talk. Often freelancers feel they need to prove themselves and so they ram their entire CV […]
Good Client Relations 3: Time
Hitting deadlines is key in any working capacity, especially when you have been the one to set the deadline in the first place! A client can be as late as they like (within reason) but you can NEVER BE LATE. Chunk Of Time Here comes some super obvious advice: always build in more time than […]
Good Client Relations 1: First Steps
You’ve pitched, you’ve converted that pitch and now you have a contract signed off. In this next section I want to cover a good client relationship, and what to do to avoid one going bad. Let’s start off with those first steps though… Who is a client? It sounds like a stupid thing to ask, […]
